Marvelous Middle Grade Monday-PETER NIMBLE AND HIS FANTASTIC EYES by Jonathan Auxier

Yay for Marvelous Middle Grade Monday and Shannon Whitney Messenger for coming up with the idea. It is a wonderful, or should I say marvelous (!), way to start off the week of celebrating reading and writing for children and teens. There are many of us now and I love blog hopping from one to the next.

Those of you who read book reviews and blogs regularly have already seen, I am sure, PETER NIMBLE AND HIS FANTASTIC EYES by Jonathan Auxier. If this is one you have been meaning to check out or buy or borrow...do it now (please). You won't be disappointed. The author takes you on a journey of imagination and fearless writing with a character you cannot wait to realize he is a true hero. Peter's beginnings are sad and scary-but they make you cheer him on because you just know he is a hero. The worlds and characters Peter meets are amazing. The kind that will grab your young readers and pull them in because they know they are reading the words of a writer who is not afraid to imagine big, just like they do. This Thursday I am skyping in to my old kids book club (we moved) and needless to say I will be telling them about Peter and recommending my old library purchase a copy for the collection. The Cybils are coming up, won't be surprised to see this on there.

From Good Reads:

"Now, for those of you who know anything about blind children, you are aware that they make the very best thieves. As you can well imagine, blind children have incredible senses of smell, and they can tell what lies behind a locked door- be it fine cloth, gold, or peanut brittle- at fifty paces. Moreover, their fingers are so small and nimble that they can slip right through keyholes, and their ears so keen that they can hear the faint clicks and clacks of every moving part inside even the most complicated lock. Of course, the age of great thievery has long since passed;today there are few child-thieves left, blind or otherwise. At one time, however, the world was simply thick with them. This is the story of the greatest thief who ever lived. His name, as you've probably guessed, is Peter Nimble."

You can check out more about Peter here and more about the author here.

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Enjoy the day all!